MAKEDAMNSURE · Taking Back Sunday

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

114

LENGTH

3:15

DIFFICULTY

48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 58-73 and 98-103 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 49, 57, 97, 104 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 32-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.